I just finished Richard Sanford's Long Time Gone, a coming-of-age road novel set in 1968. It was published recently by Xlibris, which I believe is a print-on-demand vanity publisher. I really enjoyed the book and I could imagine it doing well on its merits.
Richard and I were friends for a while as undergraduates (in 1968, in fact), but I lost track of him after college. I bought this book after seeing it mentioned in an alumni newsletter and reading some very good reviews on amazon.com.
I liked it enough that I posted a five-star review on amazon myself. Here's what I said (with one small copy-edit):
The events of 1968 serve as the backdrop for this well-written but accessible novel about a young southerner looking for a missing friend and finding himself. Sanford takes his protagonist, a country dj named Cal, from a small Mississippi River town to springtime Daytona Beach, then up the East Coast to a Cambridge crash pad and a summer romance in Boston, and finally to the Chicago convention with a group of militant anti-war demonstrators. The chapters on the Chicago riots are especially well wrought, but every scene has the true feel of the 60s counterculture. Cal's search for the younger brother of his war-casualty best friend mirrors his personal quest for purpose and identity. A remarkable book.
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